Category: Business
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Even with rising inflation, government priority should be on paying local suppliers
By Denis Jjuuko Somebody who had spent half the year planning for an event with many visitors expected in the country told me that most of his delegates had decided not to come for health reasons. They feared the outbreak of Ebola in the country and decided that they would attend by Zoom. I couldn’t…
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Govt to register all money kept at your home in new directive
By Our Reporter The government has started implementing guidelines that are aimed at ensuring that money kept under informal saving methods is protected and accounted for. This includes money that Ugandans keep in their houses or elsewhere, which is estimated to be in hundreds of billions of Shillings. The least formal means of “safekeeping” of…
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NWSC turns 50 Years, commits to water for all, excellent customer service
By Our Reporter National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) is Uganda’s largest urban water authority providing potable water and sewerage services in 262 towns, with a customer base of 900,000 connections serving approximately 18 million people. NWSC was established by Decree No. 34 of 1972. Established 50 years ago, the principal business of the Corporation…
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Swaziland revenue bosses benchmark URA on customs
By Our Reporter The Eswatini Revenue Services visited URA last week to benchmark on the Customs intelligence driven risk management. The ERS three-member team included Themba Fakudze, Wiseman Dlamini and Themba Shongwe. The trio spent five days understanding strategies that they can borrow from URA to strengthen their intelligence risk management and gain practical understanding…
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Uganda Breweries staff plant 5,000 trees in Nakaseke District
By Sheillah Kabugondo Research shows that the tree cover in the year 2000 was 7,764,959 hectares, however from 2001 to 2022 this has greatly reduced to 917,555 hectares. This is a decrease from 38.90% to 11.80% of tree cover. The national deforestation rates stand at 2% annually with an average of 122,000 hectares lost every…
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Tap into Shs48bn Soroti fruit factory expansion, Alupo urges christians
Vice President Jessica Alupo has this afternoon joined fellow christians to host a pastoral visit and confirmation ceremony in Ameca orukurukun village, Katakwi district. The pastoral visit begun with a Church Service, led by the Bishop, Rt. Rev. Kosea Odongo. In her speech, the Vice President , also woman MP-Katakwi District urged the faithfuls to…
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NWSC rolls out E-Bills
In order to serve customers better, National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) is phasing out physical bills and has introduced electronic-billing. The exercise is being piloted in a select NWSC service areas in Kampala. The electronic billing brings ease and convenience to the customer in accessing, receiving and managing their water and sewerage bills, account…
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Original shoe store “Kicks by Army” opens in Kampala
Fik Fameica scoops new shoe shop “kicks by army” ambassadorship deal New shoe shop “Kicks by army” opens in town Celebrities grace new shoe shop grand opening So many times Kampalans have fallen prey to duplicate and non original Shoes in attempt to find nice original shoes and yet still got duped.However, the duped shoe…
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Phillip Besiimire appointed new Vodacom Tanzania MD
By Agencies Vodacom Tanzania has announced the appointment of Phillip Besiimire as the telco’s managing director with effect from October 15. He joins Vodacom from MTN South Africa where he had served in different capacities with the most recent one being the chief of sales, distribution and regional operations since 2019. Mr Besiimire replaces Hilda…
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NSSF tags lower interest rate to mid-term access
For the first time in a decade, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) declared a single digit interest rate of 9.65 percent that will be paid to members for the Financial Year 2021/2022. This is equivalent to Shs1.37 trillion that will be credited to members. The drastic drop from 12.15 percent declared for the FY2020/2021,…